South Korea has confirmed its 20th case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) for this winter season at an egg <a target= ...

Health officials in the United States have raised concerns over the possible risks of a new pandemic, after a bird flu ...

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

However, she said, since 2018 there have been no reports of new cases in humans. Meanwhile, the H5N6 and H9N2 variants have ...

About 323 samples of Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus are still unaccounted for after going missing from Queensland's Public Health Virology Laboratory in August 2023.

Most human cases have been caused by H7N9, highly pathogenic H5N1 or H5N6 viruses, per the CDC. Through an intermediate host, ...

According to the NHS four strains of bird flu have been known to affect humans including H5N1 (since 1997), H7N9 (since 2013), H5N6 (since 2014) and H5N8 (since 2016) Although H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 ...

There are other forms of highly pathogenic bird flu, including H5N6, H5N8, H7N9 and H7N7, and there are also other forms of the virus considered low pathogenic. "Influenza A viruses cause ...

Most of them don't infect humans. Although H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 don't infect people easily and aren't usually spread from human to human, several people have been infected around the world ...

In China, 91 human infections caused by HPAI H5N6 and two infections caused by clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 have been recorded since 2014. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus clade 2.3.2.1a ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Follow Newsweek's live blog for ...